May Tech Dump

Just a collection of news and tools i learned this month. Comment down below if you know any other tool

News

Photonic Neuromorphic Computing

source: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-photonics-artificial-intelligence-neuromorphic.html

• Use light instead of electrons to store and process data
• Normal computer waste around 50% of energy for data transfer from Disk to cache
• AI can exploit this tech to improve performance.

Tools

Shazam

site: https://www.shazam.com

• You want to know the details of the song you are listening, this website can help you
• Available as mobile app too.

Pagodo - Passive Google Dork

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lESeJ3EViCo

Basics

• Whenever you need to find something in internet, google is the go to website.
• Google has wealth of information, sometimes finding the required information can be troublesome
• Google dorks can you help you in that scenerio
• try the following in google
  • site:wikipedia.com maths you only get results from wikipedia
  • This tells google to get websites from wikipedia related maths not from other sites
• Jouranalist, Security researcher use this method to narrow down the information they want.

Advanced Info

• https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database
• Find leaked passwords, logs

Docker as IDE

source: https://medium.com/@ls12styler/docker-as-an-integrated-development-environment-95bc9b01d2c1

• Your computer cannot be replaced by other computers, due to few things
  • Tools you liked are right around the corner.
  • Configuration on your tools
• If you are developer you can create a docker config of the tools you need and install it Whenever you need it.
• Not a new idea, i used LiveOverflow docker config replaced few things and used it to analyze binary files and solve ctf challenges.
• My docker config: https://github.com/ThangaAyyanar/Security-Shuriken/blob/master/dockerfile

PortMaster

source: https://github.com/Safing/portmaster

• Are you worried about what you computer when connected to network. If you use Windows or Ubuntu you can try PortMaster to check which application are talking via network
• Portmaster is a free and open-source application that puts you back in charge over all your computer’s network connections

Proxychains and tor

• Proxychains is proxy within proxy
• Typical VPN

Your computer -> Proxy -> Internet

• Proxychains

Your computer -> Proxy1 -> Proxy2.. -> Proxy(N) -> Internet

• You can mix and match proxy of different kinds too.
• More details on Proxychains github

Xargs usage

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EFY5ztZb00

• Xargs convert input into argument list
• To know what xargs is doing

xargs -t

• -n how much args at time to be passed

xargs -t -n 1
xargs -n 1

• -I where to place the argument

ls | xargs -I {} echo {}

• How many parallel operation at a time -P

echo "a b c d" | xargs -n 1 -P <How many parallel operation> bash -c 'sleep 1; echo $0'
echo "a b c d" | xargs -n 1 -P 1 bash -c 'sleep 1; echo $0'